On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:44:41AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > | memcmp() promises to be usable for alphabetical sorting which would make > | a constant-time algorithm needlessly complicated and is not of use for > | the intended applications. > > memcmp() does not promise alphabetical sorting. It just promises to do the > byte comparison as unsigned so that the results are consistent. It is not > complicated to do this at all, for example: > > int > consttime_memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n) > [snip]
so, I evidently missed this: what's "consttime" about this? -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
